Deval Patrick

Deval Patrick (31 July 1956-) was Governor of Massachusetts (D) from 4 January 2007 to 8 January 2015, succeeding Mitt Romney and preceding Charlie Baker.

Biography
Deval Patrick was born on 31 July 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, and he was raised by a single African-American mother. He earned a scholarship to Milton Academy in Massachusetts while in the eighth grade and went on to attend Harvard College and Harvard Law School, becoming a lawyer for the NAACP and becoming a law firm partner at the age of 34. From 1994 to 1997, he served under President Bill Clinton as US Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, and he worked on issues such as racial profiling and police misconduct. In 2006, he was elected Governor of Massachusetts as a Democrat, and he oversaw the implementation of Governor Mitt Romney's healthcare, increased funding of education and life science, created the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, increased the state sales tax from 5% to 6.25%, raised the minimum wage from $8 to $11, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. After leaving office, he became a managing director at Bain Capital, and, on 13 November 2019, he announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.